Will Microsoft Flight Simulator support multiple monitors?

Anonymous
2020-08-16T12:13:19+00:00

Will Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 support multiple monitors?

For example, one monitor for instruments, another for front view, one for left, and one for right?

This is opposed to one view being spread over two monitors.

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Anonymous
2020-08-19T15:40:46+00:00

You can span the display using Nvidia's Surround, which is part of the Nvidia control panel. 

There is something similar to this if you are using an AMD video card.

At present, FS2020 DOES NOT allow you to open new additional windows for separate instruments, views, etc., like it did in FSX.

Hopefully Microsoft will address this in the future, and make this benefit available, ... although I doubt it, because the software is designed to mainly run under an XBOX single window environment (using either a PC as in XBOX Beta for PC or on an XBOX console.)

I'm currently running FS2020 using three screens with a resolution of 5760 x 1200, and FS2020 runs fine across these three monitors which are in Nvidia's Surround (so it looks like one big, very wide screen monitor.) And this works great, EXCEPT it would be nice to be able to open up another window for just the instruments, like I could do under FSX. 

One of the trade-offs, of going with the much, much, much more advanced FS2020 software.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T16:49:52+00:00

    Tried the suggestion with 3 -32" 4K monitors and RTX 2080 TI graphics card and 11,520 x 2160.

    It's absolute garbage. Rather than adding screen space, it stretches the current size which blurs the graphics and make the view look through a soda straw. The display missing a third of the full picture!!! Extremely disappointing for a brand new, high end flight simulator.

    At this point I prefer the simulation experience of FSX.

    Without this capability FS20 is a neat little XBOX game. Hopefully Microsoft realizes how important this feature is for a high quality flight simulator.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T17:08:16+00:00

    Tried the suggestion with 3 -32" 4K monitors and RTX 2080 TI graphics card and 11,520 x 2160.

    It's absolute garbage. Rather than adding screen space, it stretches the current size which blurs the graphics and make the view look through a soda straw. The display missing a third of the full picture!!! Extremely disappointing for a brand new, high end flight simulator.

    At this point I prefer the simulation experience of FSX.

    Without this capability FS20 is a neat little XBOX game. Hopefully Microsoft realizes how important this feature is for a high quality flight simulator.

    Whats required is a Field of View size modifyable parameter like XP11. Adjusting that can eliminate the stretching of the side monitor imagery.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T17:21:32+00:00

    Tried the suggestion with 3 -32" 4K monitors and RTX 2080 TI graphics card and 11,520 x 2160.

    It's absolute garbage. Rather than adding screen space, it stretches the current size which blurs the graphics and make the view look through a soda straw. The display missing a third of the full picture!!! Extremely disappointing for a brand new, high end flight simulator.

    At this point I prefer the simulation experience of FSX.

    Without this capability FS20 is a neat little XBOX game. Hopefully Microsoft realizes how important this feature is for a high quality flight simulator.

    Also without FOV management or VR, TrackIR has a definite role to play here.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-05T20:04:51+00:00

    "Field of View size modifiable parameter like XP11."

    Hmmmm... that's interesting. I'm going to have to investigate that. I have been running 3 22" exterior view monitors for some years and have always been looking for a way to eliminate that stretching in the two side monitors.

    I agree with your comment "FS20 is a neat little XBOX game." That's a handy way to describe it. Others also suspect that Microsoft will leave it in that state. Time will tell.

    Don Whyte

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